“I just wanted to make an inexpensive film,” he told The New York Times in 1988. In 1979, a rising British writer-director, James Dearden, produced the 40-minute Diversion. But for decades, the movie - and Close’s performance - has stayed with us.īefore it was an Oscar-nominated film, garnering six nods, including Best Actress for Close and Best Picture, Fatal Attraction was a short film. And, likewise, arguments still rage over whether Fatal Attraction was merely channeling the zeitgeist or exploiting society’s worst tendencies in service of a titillating, provocative thriller about an affair that goes wrong. Nobody can decide if Alex Forrest is a victim or a villain. But the role that perhaps remains her most memorable - certainly her most debated - occurred 32 years ago. The Wife is Close’s seventh Oscar nomination, and her victory would be viewed as the culmination of an impressive body of work that’s included playing everyone from elegant schemers ( Dangerous Liaisons ) to an anguished butler who’s lived her life disguised as a man ( Albert Nobbs ). But on the eve of the ceremony, a snooping reporter (Christian Slater) pokes around to investigate an old rumor: Was Joan actually the genius behind all those epochal novels? Has she sublimated herself so that her husband could flourish? If she does take home the Oscar, it will be for The Wife, a drama about a married woman, Joan, who’s been staunchly loyal to her husband Joseph (Jonathan Pryce), an egotistical, celebrated author about to receive the Nobel Prize for his literary brilliance. A decorated actress who’s earned three Emmys and three Tonys, the venerable star could finally win an Academy Award. On Sunday, Glenn Close may achieve what she’s never before accomplished in a 45-year career.

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